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Originally Posted by recycled sixtie
This nosy neighbor has telephoned my daughter several times during work hours while my daughter tried to work from home. Her concern is drainage and the City has reassured my daughter that there is nothing wrong with the drainage.
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Most drainage problems can be easily avoided or fixed with a ditch and grading, with placement of downspouts to a low area or drywell.
If the daughter's downspouts are the concern, there are flex extensions to take water to a safe lower drop point away from neighbor's foundation.
$100 fix. Done.
Now is a good time for that, before the winter snow melt.
Otherwise the neighbor should be looking at her own property and adding a sump pump well in the basement
Mom's old house had moisture problems which she wouldn't let me fix. There were no problems when she first bought the place. The city inspectors were useless. There was a constant dribble from the uphill wall of a basement stairwell even after weeks of no rain. That indicated there was a natural spring or a break in the neighbor's fresh water line or they watered their lawn way too much. An audit would have found that. A landscaping company could have fixed the (gradual) grading for $5-10 grand permanently. The plumbers installed an system she didn't need and then their first sump pump failed which flooded the basement majorly. Again. Everything down there had been nicely finished into a living space which her nice second husband with health problems used as his office but then it all needed to be torn up. Problems after problems. She ended up selling the place for at least a hundred grand (probably two) less than it was worth.